The Ikea Pax Stordal and other variations of their sliding door wardrobe system are a favourite with Unflatpack's customers. The finished units look fantastic for the five hundred or so pounds that they cost. However there is a price in time to pay as this is no novice assembly project.
You would imagine that the doors would come assembled in 2 large packages, but oh, no. Each door contains the following: 6 side pieces, 3 glass or wood panels, 26 adhesive cushioning strips, 45 plastic tuck-in tensioning wedges, 18 screws / bolts, 4 running mechanisms and 1 or 2 flushing strips.
In all honesty this is not something that should be sold for self-assembly without a clear warning! It is a complex project that requires a high level of competence in engineering or assembly. We wouldn't send out an Unflatpacker solo for their first Stordal build! Obviously we have developed our own optimised assembly process and there are a few places where you can really come a cropper.
We are often called out by clients who have opened the boxes and looked at the pages of instructions and hundreds of components and decided to call in professionals. On a couple of occasions they have almost ruined the doors by charging in with a screw gun and jamming vital screws and taking off the heads, which takes us hours to repair. If you are taking on this mammoth job yourself, do up all of the fixings by hand, the screws are made of cheese!
Our client had just taken possession of a new build in Stamford Hill and had literally walked up the road to the Ikea Edmonton store and arranged for them to deliver the wardrobe and internal components.
The system comprised 2 x 100cm x 201cm Pax birch cabinets, 4 pull-out Komplement drawers, 2 shelves and a couple of hanging rails. The build time was a respectable 4 hours. Fortunately the floor was perfectly level which is always a good thing if you are planning siding doors.
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